Trust has received 1000 complaints to keep Asian Network open. This is ridiculous. The station is key to the Asian music scene. Seems apathy has reared it’s ugly head in regards to Save BBC Asian Network. Come on everyone, we can do better than 1000 complaints. EMAIL srconsultation@bbc.co.uk NOW to Save BBC Asian Network. Just be honest. Keep it simple or state your reasons for not closing it down.
Blog. Why signing up to my blog? To read someting else about music, pop and Christina Aguilera. Please see the right side of this page.
Music. A playlist of mine with songs by Lily Allen (Fuck You), David Guetta featuring Kid Cudi (Memories) and Amy Macdonald (Don’t Tell Me That It’s Over).
Mediterranean diet and diabetes. Do you follow the Mediterranean diet or do you know anyone who’s diagnosed with type 2 diabetes? And have you read this article in the Reader’s Digest by Janis Graham?
Mediterranean eating. Eating plans and the Mediterranean plan for the Guardian Eat Right by the Observer. Yoghurt with fruit and nuts, salmon with roast vegetables, pasta salad and fruit and crackers and hummus…
Madagascar andAfrica. The website of Madagascar National Tourism Board. South Africa for 15 nights with the supplier Riviera Travel for 1499 pounds and the Nile for seven nights from 649 pounds with another supplier, Discover Egypt.
Trust has received 1000 complaints to keep Asian Network open. This is ridiculous. The station is key to the Asian music scene. Seems apathy has reared its ugly head in regards to Save BBC Asian Network. Come on everyone, we can do better than 1000 complaints. EMAIL srconsultation@bbc.co.uk NOW to Save BBC Asian Network. Just be honest. Keep it simple or state your reasons for not closing it down.
22.11.09 – Thailand. Have you ever travelled to Thailand and Bangkok? Would you like to travel there? Please see below as well.
Mediterranean countries for “The Observer” and more
Cancun, Mexico, Central America and Asia. Have you ever been to Cancun in Mexico or Thailand? And maybe from Sweden? Which are the flights? And where have you been?
Sitges. September in Spain from the UK? In Sitges? Do you know salsa music? Or maybe do you like to eat in tapas restaurants?
Again Italy. Do you like whales or dolphins in the Ligurian Sea or maybe Basilicata with southern Apennines and “bread from bakeries in Matera, wine from Aglianico and cheese from the mountains”? And do you like this list by The Observer?
An island.Sardinia‘s Supramonte Mountains and plateau, Sorgente Su Gologone and the Lanaittu Valley or a Nuraghic village. Any help needed by the Association for Tourist Services, Culture and Environment in Orgosolo or the Agrituristica Guthiddai? Would you like to taste boiled sheep, roasted pork, bread and salami or cheese, local wine and olive oil?
Going on with food, would you feel like eating almonds, carob, olive, pistachio and walnut trees? In Can Marti – Ibiza, Spain, with Swiss owners… Furthermore there is “homemade bread with local jam and honey”…
Spain and France. And what about Cortes de la Frontera in Spain and a lot of place in France like Béziers, the Languedoc, the Canal du Midi and Carcassonne? Or the vineyards of Minervois, Ventenac and the Cathar castle at Lastours? A wind farm there…
Burgundy and gay naturism. A gay naturist retreat in Burgundy by Citronniers with a price of 80 euros per night per person with a 3-course evening meal, full English breakfast, lunch and all drinks included.
Marche. And would you like mountains’ cycling holidays in Alpujarras, Spain, as the second page of the article offers? Or an agriturismo in Le Marche, Italy? Here more information…
Cycling and eating. Do you know the village of Bérchules and the Alpujarras? And the Sierra Nevada above Granada and the Mulhacén in Spain? Do you like mountains’ cycling and picnicking? You should pay 630 euros a week.
Farming. A country house and organically run farm in Le Marche, Italy… What? A five-course evening meal?! Incredible… And “heating is solar-powered and there’s a wood-fired stove fuelled by coppicing from the farm woods”. Plus truffle-hunting not very far from Rimini, Urbino and Ancona. Doubles from €110 including breakfast.
Ssese’s Islands. Do you know where the tropical Ssese’s Islands are? If you would like to know it, please see this reportage by Richard Eilers for The Observer… Sands, forest walks, a lake, fried tilapia, above all the rapids and Bob Marley… And, moreover, as for names, Kampala, the MS Kalangala from Entebbe to Bugala, Lutoboka, Kibale Forest national park and the Bassese and, as for animals, gorillas and chimpanzees…
The Nile. And do you know what mzungu means, who Idi Amin is and where Jinja and the Bujagali Falls are? Clues for my question are the Nile and the lakes Nyinambuga and Victoria… Last, but not least, have you ever been to the Ssese Islands Beach Hotel, the Haven, the Ndali Lodge and to the Gately on Nile? Have you ever met South Africans or Americans?
Aircraft. You can fly to Entebbe from Brussels with Brussels Airlines on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 10.40 to 19.35; from Amsterdam and from London Heathrow to Entebbe with KLM. Among the other national parks in Uganda there would be the Bwindi Impenetrable national park in the south-west, Murchison Falls and Queen Elizabeth national parks and “the Foreign Office advises against travel to the Karamoja region, in the north-east”.
Southern Italy. What follows is not an ad and I know my readers should be very intelligent. So I add this link to a project for 122 two and three bed villas and townhouses near Sciacca, Sicily, Italy.
Northern and Central Italy. Do you like Castel Fidardo, near Ancona? And Vicobarone Ziano Piacentino, near Piacenza in Emilia Romagna?
Florence. No deadline for a research internship in Florence, at the Robert Schumann Centre for Advanced Studies in the EUI (European University Institute). The field will be the following: Institutions, Governance and Democracy and, moreover, Migration, Economic and Monetary Policy, Competition Policy and Market Regulation, Energy Policy and International and Trasnational Relations.
You have to possess a PhD, a publication record and experience in the field. You could work from one to three years and your appontment can be renewed up to total five years. Application forms will be sent per e-mail with your CV and motivation letter.
Belgium. The K.U. Leuven in Belgium – it should be an health institution – invites to apply for a full-time academic position as a Coordinator Research Laboratory in Gynecology and Obstetrics. In this case no deadline too…
23.02.10 – Cologne.Impact Assessment Officer at the EASA, European Aviation Safety Agency, based in Cologne, Germany. The deadline is today.
17.07.09 – Warsaw and Brussels. There are the so-called Regio Stars Awards for “City” and “ICT” themes and websites. Here’s more information and the deadline is Friday July 17 through “Regional Managing Authorities”.
About more than a week to apply for two posts of Research Officer at the Frontex in Warsaw, Poland, the European Agency that deals with external borders. Here’s the application form and the deadline is Tuesday July 7. Nine years of professional experience required and sending by traditional mail…
09.07.09 – Vienna. Just two job offers with deadline July 9 at 1 pm and a lot of them for the next day. The first and second offers come from FRA (Fundamental Rights Agency), based in Vienna, Austria, and concern a Programme Manager for Social Research (notice and application form) and a so-called Seconded National Expert (notice and application form), who has to work in a public administration.
Please be aware that the EASA (European Aviation Safety Agency) has postponed the deadlines to apply for some posts. The dates changed from June 18, 25 or 26 to Friday July 10 for the posts of Processing and Proofreading Assistant, Large Aeroplane Project Certification Manager (in this last case now even to July 17), Economic Analysis Assistant and Risk and Impact Assessment Expert (in this last case deadline postponed to August 10). Please refer to what I have written below for these job offers.
Furthermore, there is another offer from this institution based in Cologne, Germany – concerning posts of Coordination Assistants with the deadline postponed to July 24. You have to have at least nine years of relevant professional experience…
Barcelona. If you are an engineer, you may then apply for a post of Planning Engineer for Fusion for Energy, the European Joint Undertaking for ITER, a project to get energy from nuclear fusion. Application forms have to be sent till Friday, July 10, at midday, Barcelona time. And you could obviously work in Barcelona…
03.07.09 Two deadlines postponed from a day of June to Friday July 3…
From external relations and a change to the economics. The ECB – please see below for more information about this bank – seeks students and recent graduates for an internship. They have to be specialised or interested in financial auditing and have a master’s degree in economics, finance, business administration or similar courses. The deadline to apply is Wednesday July 1 and you will start working on 1 September or later for six months.
Senior professionals in academia, central banks and research institutions? Then the Wim Duisenberg Research Fellowship could be a good choice for you. You would conduct economic research in the Directorate General Research (DG-R) and the ECB in Frankfurt – Germany (European Central Bank) – would offer you an assignment for a period of between three and eleven months next year. You may apply till Tuesday June 30.
Are you a Greek-Language Interpreter? The EU has opened two competitions for the so-called grades AD5 and AD7 till Tuesday June 30 at midday (Brussels time). Here the application forms for the first and the second job and the Official Journal and the general rules.
Respectively at least twelve and fifteen years of professional experience are required for two posts of Head of Unit and Director, respectively at the CFCA in Vigo, Spain (Community Fisteries Control Agency), and at the ECDC in Stockholm, Sweden (European Centre for Disease prevention and Control). Here there are the istructions for the first job offer…
29.06.09 – Parma. Do you possess a scientific university degree in fields concerning health, chemistry and biology? Then you might consider a call for external experts at the EFSA in Parma, Italy (European Food Safety Authority)… The last day to apply is Monday, June 29…
06.07.09 – Cologne. After the job offers around June 14 and last months, here’s some other posts at the EASA – European Aviation Safety Agency – in Cologne, Germany, till Monday, June 22. You have to submit your application by traditional mail for a General Support Officer (Business/Public administration studies, European studies or Law and knowledge of the European Commission general regulations concerning the aviation field).
Some of you who are reading this text may also apply to become Third Country Operator Authorisations Officers (coordinating and liaising with the Finance and Business directorate and advantageous a knowledge of European aviation safety regulations and the so-called SARPS or EC Reg. 2042/2003 and ICAO Annex 8).
This sector also offers another possibility of working as Third Country Operator Authorisations Team Leaders (nine years of professional experience). You have to have nine years as a worker too to become a FSTD Standardisation Team Leader (Flight Simulation Training Devices) or three years to be a Maintenance Review Board Expert – and in both these two cases the selection is postponed till July 6. Please also be aware of job offers with postponed deadlines with details in my text of June 14…
Polish language. Now let’s move to the next day, Tuesday June 23, at midday (Brussels time). The field concerns this time Polish-Language Conference Interpreters and here there are the way to apply, the general rules and the Official Journal. This is the so-called grade AD5, and there is also the grade AD7 for these interpreters (how to apply and, for the general rules and the Official Journal, please see above).
Douglas Alexander, Ed Balls, Mike Smithson and SNP in an article by Nick Cohen for the Observer, but, above all, two sentences like
In foreign policy, too few people again realise that the Liberal Democrats are not true internationalists but a Fortress Europe party indifferent to the needs of those suffering beyond the EU’s walls. Thus they opposed the second Iraq war for good reasons, but offered no support to Iraqi liberals and democrats hoping for something better after 30 years of unremitting tyranny.
But also in this article Evan Harris and Norman Lamb are quoted as well as Vince Cable and the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Below something else about Iraq or something else that might not be of interest for you.
Iraq, London and Khyam Allami. BBC Asian Network and 6 Music. Radio 3’s World Routes with Lucy Duran and Khyam Allami, a London based musician of Iraqi descent.
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Balkan Beat Box. The song War Again by Balkan Beat Box.
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Music. A playlist of mine with songs and bad words, memories and a love that is over.
Afghanistan.Photos from Afghanistan? Surely a good idea by the Reader’s Digest.
Afghanistan and Europe. Afghanistan and a video by the European Commission.
31.03.10 – Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars and Vermont. The Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars will be on tour on April 7 at the Higher Ground in Burlington, United States.
Refugees and The Refugee Day. Have you taken part today – or, let’s write in another way, will you take part – to the World Refugee Day? Here’s an article by Deutsche Welle with particulars about the organisation refunited.org, Claus-Ulrich Proelss, the head of the non-government organization Cologne Refugee Council, and Ulrich Austermuehle from the Red Cross tracing service in Bonn.
The Huffington Post, RI (Refugees International), Iraq and the “aftermath” of the Civil War. The author, Luis Carlos Montalván, writes: “It looks as though the US response to the Iraqi refugee problem has come up wanting, on every front”.
An excerpt from this text is also what I write now: “But Lincoln was struck down the following month and the Bureau was officially abolished in 1872. Consequently, from 1877 to 1965, States and localities enacted “Jim Crow laws” thereby stifling Lincoln’s vision of assisting the refugees (mostly former slaves). It would take 99 years for the US Civil Rights Act of 1964 to renew what Lincoln began”. Have a nice reading…
A refugee and a famous actress
Is effective the work of a goodwill ambassador? Anyway, there would be areas who are now out of bounds for aid troops in Afghanistan…
Fire, migrants and a protest.Fire in the island of Lampedusa after a protest by some illegal immigrants.
The strong determination not to return home. The fire took place at an Italian refugee centre in an island located between the rest of Sicily – near the town of Agrigento – and the North African coasts of Libya.
An anthology – Go home: 12 moving stories – about migration with works by “young comic artists from Europe and Asia”.
Calogero Mira 